In 1848, two young men published what would become one of the defining documents of modern history, The Communist Manifesto. It rapidly realigned political faultlines all over the world and its aftershock resonates to this day. In the many years since its publication, no other social program has inspired such divisive and violent debate. Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world s first regime to adopt the Manifesto s tenets, historians have debated its intent and its impact. In the current era of market democracy in Russia and Eastern Europe, nationalism on every continent, and an ever tightening global economy, does the specter of Communism still haunt the world? Were the seeds of Communism s ultimate destruction already planted in 1848? Is there anything to be learned from Marx s envisioned uia? 《共产党宣言》，是马克思和恩格斯为共产主义者同盟（Communist League）起草的纲领，在这个纲领性文献中，阐述了矛盾对人类历史的影

Two essays representing a search for the balance between the rights of the individual and the power of the state discuss such issues as equality, authority, happiness, justice, and virtue. Reprint.